Hedging their bets: Oil industry giving more Senate race funds to Landrieu than to Cassidy

2:28 AM,
Feb. 2, 2014

Written by

Lynda Edwards
ledwards@gannett.com

In this Senate race, black gold seems to be a thicker bond than blue or red party lines.

Oil and gas companies, including many Acadiana-based, are donating more than double the dollars - $456,300 in donations from 2009 through September 2013 - to support Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's re-election bid than they are giving to her challenger, Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy, who reaped $172,850 from the sector during the same period. The nonpartisan, nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics has analyzed Federal Election Commision's raw data, dividing it into industry sectors since 1983 as a ...